A new version of Firefox Screenshots landed in Nightly. This version disables screenshot uploads, and has migration instructions if you’ve uploaded screenshots before. There’s also a new Ctrl + Shift + S keyboard shortcut.

We’ve landed lots of Dev Tools improvements!

Logpoints landed in the Debugger, letting you add and edit console logs everywhere, without ever touching the files – thanks to Bomsy!

📣 Call to Action: ✨ Use All The Breakpoints ✨ in the new debugger. Keep an eye out for issues. If you see something, say something.

Browser Architecture

The Fluent XUL cache, which will allow us to use Fluent on the startup path, is in review.

Developer Tools

The new scrollable badge got enabled on Nightly by Patrick Brosset, letting you quickly find the element causing unwanted scrollbars.

The Debugger team is working across many fronts to provide you the Breakpoints quality that you deserve!

Brian Hackett is cleaning up the Debugger’s sources/script handling, which not only fixes long-standing issues with inline, console, evaled & gc’d scripts but also sets the foundation for shipping “windowless” worker debugging.

Working on getting the list of bugs remaining for Nightly down, will likely be looking at starting wider testing soon.

User Experience

After the implementation of Contextual Feature Recommender (CFR) for Extensions, the goal is to extend recommendations to include Firefox features, like Pinned Tabs. For example, if you open multiple tabs and repeatedly use these tabs, we may offer you a feature called “Pin Tabs” and explain how it works. Firefox curates the suggested features and notifies you in an appropriate context.

After several rounds of user testing, we’ve finalized the design and will run CFR Pinned Tab in a shield study. Engineering work is scheduled for 67.

One comment on “These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 53”

The frame by frame comparison at the top is fairly useless if the rival browser and Firefox load entirely different pages.
If you want a fair comparison load in both browser at startup a page like Wikipedia, New York Times or ArchiveOrg.

Come on guys, don’t let this browser drop lower than 9%, and for g*ds sake, will you please fix the about:config page to allow:
1) searching by value again
2) sorting each column
Massive feature removal! People have already criticized this on bugzilla. Will there be any action at all?